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Yeah. No.
Me neither!
But if your "friend" ever does - here's a thing that works for me, my friend.
I have two plastic syringes from Malwart, I think. One is clunky and jerky and messy to operate. Piston/plunger bit works lousy.
This one works good - very smooth -  it is for inoculating pigeons or roast beef or something. Pointy on the end.


Onto this syringe I pushed a tube from a Windex bottle (about ANY spray bottle tube will work).





This length tube was the correct length to reach the fresh oil in both a slightly over-filled Kymco and a Piaggio - my friend said.


TWO important things to remember:

1) Do NOT drop that tube inside your engine - you're on your own after that!
b) Don't put that tube back on your wife's full Windex bottle.


("My friend.."  brings to mind a funny story:

In the spring of 1967 I thumbed to San Francisco from Los Angeles to see what all the fuss was about. A kid from LA joined me. He was both immensely lazy and terrifically allergic to poison ivy.
He contracted a wicked dose of poison ivy when we were sleeping rough around Big Sur.
When we got to Frisco some street folks told me about a Free Clinic across town, where he could get some calamine lotion.

He was too damlazy to walk across town, so I went. I went up to the desk at the nurses station and explained the situation about "my friend".

Well the harried Nurse only heard "dose" and "my friend",  and pointed me to one of several benches to wait for the Doc.

Finally I was called into the treatment room - where the Doc asked about "oozing, and blistering, etc.?"
'Yep' - then told me to drop my Levis and and bend over.

Yeah, I'd been sitting on the VD bench!


Well, we all had a big laugh, and I got my free bottle of calamine lotion.

BTW - lazybones wimped out, called his mom and got a bus back to LA. I found lodging & work cooking for a pro Chess hustler on Haight St. that summer. Who knew you could make $ playing Chess?
Good times.

Stig

That would have been poison oak. We don't have poison ivy in CA Just sayin 

Think about replacing the brake fluid with a full flush. While we are on brakes, check the pad for wear and leaks around the caliper pistons. If leaking be careful when removing and replacing the piston seals. You can easily scratch where the seals seat. I use a soft plastic tooth floss pick to remove the seals.

Some folks play their MC boom boxes way to loud. I find it more annoying than loud pipes. MC boom boxes don't produce the hearing damage like those tinny sounding Bluetooth helmet setups. That's because BT devices have to be turned way up at highway speeds. That and the wind noise is very damaging to the ears. MC boom boxes are buffered by the helmet thus reducing the potential for hearing loss.

I do like the BT setup to have my phone handy just in case my wife or kids call or when riding with a buddy to stay connected. Occasionally I use it for turn-by-turn directions, but for the most part I like to escape the mobile gadgets and just enjoy the ride. YMMV

My helmet camera is a GoPro. I really like it. I have not used others brands so I can't compare. So far the GoPro does everything I need it to. I have the older Hero 3 White version. It is light weight, great video capture and the GoPro editing software makes easy work of those YT uploads.

AAA has road side assistance for your PTW, but you have to buy the RV roadside assistance plan, but you get tons of perks. For my wife and I it cost $197 annually for the plan. My HOG membership also includes roadside assistance, but way more limited vs the AAA plan.

OP, Sorry to hear about you life changes. You are a lucky man to have a wife that like riding with you. My wife isn't interested, but accepts my passion for two wheels. We have two kids, 12 and 14. I don't want to miss out on their lives so I ride mostly early mornings when they are asleep. They are late risers. Me I can get up before the sun to ride. After a few hours of riding I return home about the time they rise. Then it's all family time after that. May be you can do something similar to stay in the game. At any rate, please remain on the bb. I enjoy your posts.

How are you listening to the turn-by-turn direction? BT communicator?

If you go to college campuses in California you'll see a good number of scooters. I was at Stanford University last week and the inner campus was full of scooters, mainly Chinese made.